[K12OSN] Dell 4600 w/8 Gigs Memory - where is it?

[Burke Almquist]

	First, are you hitting swap?? If not then its probably not a memory  
problem. A pegged out CPU may be just that, not an indicator of  
insufficient memory. More memory isn't going to help if the CPU is  
the bottleneck. (Though I'll bet you aren't using all of the memory  
unless you are using bigmem kernel or a x86-64 kernel).
	Second,  What version of K12LTSP are you running ? What kind of apps  
is it running, desktop environment, services? What kind of CPU(s) are  
you using, and what kernel is the server running (version, arch, SMP,  
bigmem?). Basically, we need more/different information.

On Mar 9, 2006, at 11:26 PM, Alan A Hodson wrote:

> Greetings
>
> This may sound strange but in one of the labs we have in El Paso  
> ISD (TX) we have a Dell 4600 with 8 Gigs of ram, and yet the system  
> monitor tells me that the CPU is working nearly at 100% capacity  
> constantly... My question is, how can I configure this monster so  
> that the load is shared by the gargantuan amount of memory? It  
> seems like if more than 30 users log in, the system starts  
> crawling... I've tried the SMP kernel also, and it doesn't seem to  
> help... Somehow I am not making proper use of the available memory  
> - any way of pre-loading some applications (say openoffice and  
> firefox) so that they stay in ram and are available right away for  
> all students?
>
> Any suggestions/clarifications are much appreciated
>
> Alan Hodson
> aahodson at episd dot org
> http://links.epid.org
> -=o=-
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